The Abandoned and Destitute Children’s Appeal Fund, better known as ‘ADCAF’, is a charity registered by the UK Charities Commission (Registration Number 1072881), as well as the Indian Registered Charities (Registration Number: U 85300 MH 2002 NPL 136399). Although it had been operating on an informal basis for many years previously, it was formally set up with the Charities Commission by three of the current trustees on 16th March 1998.

The main aims of the Charity are summarised in it's objectives as, “Assisting in the provision of care, relief, protection, housing, medical expenses for children that are abandoned, destitute, impoverished, or, who are otherwise in need, and the advancement of such children